English Literature

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  • Created by: megshep
  • Created on: 06-03-16 16:01

Personality

Role

  • Quiet
  • Passionate
  • Modern
  • pitys herself
  • Determined yet not forward
  • Main character
  • Shows a feminist perspective for her time
  • To make a change to the people she meets
  • Describe the ways in which women were oppressed in a subtle manner
  • Shows how women can be determined and wish for something however are oppressed by society to be something else

Development (Growth & change)

Key quotes

  • Red room demonstrates a rebirth (womb) and shows Jane maturing
  • Her strength to leave Rochester proves that she now knows what is good but her lust now over-powers her
  • When running back to Rochester it is shown that Jane has no strength to stick to what she believes is morally right
  • "What have i sacrificed?"
  • “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8).
  • “I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. . . . To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. . . . We are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result” (Chapter 38).
  • “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”

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